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I’m not blind but I browse with images disabled. This means I can no longer login to Protonmail because they push CAPTCHAs. I know some CAPTCHAs have an audio option but I just get a blank box from Protonmail’s CAPTCHA. So I was wondering how blind people deal with that, or if they are simply excluded from using #Protonmail.

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[–] MostlyBlindGamer@rblind.com 9 points 11 months ago (6 children)

There’s an option to skip the captcha if you’re using a screen reader. They then use other heuristics to determine you’re a human. It didn’t work for me the first time, but then did. You may or may not be able to use it if you navigate with the keyboard.

[–] soloActivist@links.hackliberty.org 1 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

Thanks for the tip!

Although it’s a tricky decision because if the server can detect that you use a screen reader, then your browser fingerprint uniqueness would increase quite a bit.

[–] Cqrd@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 11 months ago

A website can't usually detect if you're using a screen reader, but there's CSS tricks to hide text so it'll only be read by screen readers. This basically just requires putting them somewhere somebody not using a screen reader can't see.

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